Statue of Edward Everett Hale in Boston Public Garden, by Bela Pratt.

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1812x2479, 882 KB) Edward Everett Hale statue, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1812x2479, 882 KB) Edward Everett Hale statue, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Equestrian statue of George Washington. ... Statue of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem, Massachusetts. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nathan Hale(1784-1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and statesman, and grandnephew of Nathan Hale, the martyr spy. He graduated from Harvard in 1839; was pastor of the church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1846-1856, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in 1856-1899; and in 1903 became chaplain of the United States Senate. He died at Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts, on the 10th of June 1909. Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Motto: Official website: www. ... Edward Everett Edward Everett (April 11, 1794–January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. ... Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755–September 22, 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: The Heart of the Commonwealth, The City of the Seven Hills, Wormtown, Woo-town, Wortown (war-town), The City of Diners Motto: Official website: www. ... Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts. ...

His forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology, together with his deep interest in the anti-slavery movement (especially in Kansas), popular education (especially Chautauqua works), and the working-man's home, were active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He was a constant and voluminous contributor to the newspapers and magavines. He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in founding in 1869; in 1875 it was merged in Scribner's Magazine), "Lend a Hand" (founded by him in 1886 and merged in the Charities Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand Record; and he was the author or editor of more than sixty books--fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history. Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ... Official language(s) None Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 15th 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² 211 mi; 340 km 400 mi; 645 km 0. ...

He first came into notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published in the same periodical other stories, the best known of which was "The Man Without a Country" (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North, and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which has led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. The two stories mentioned, and such others as "The Rag-Man and the Rag-Woman" and "The Skeleton in the Closet," gave him a prominent position among the short-story writers of America. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ...

The story "Ten Times One is Ten" (1870), with its hero Harry Wadsworth, and its motto, first enunciated in 1869 in his Lowell Institute lectures, "Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand," led to the formation among young people of Lend-a-Hand Clubs, Look-up Legions and Harry Wadsworth Clubs. Out of the romantic Waldensian story In His Name (1873) there similarly grew several other organizations for religious work, such as King's Daughters, and King's Sons. Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $237,000 left by John Lowell, Jr. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride and Evangeline. ...

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I am one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do."

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• Works by Edward Everett Hale at Project Gutenberg

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